The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-loo...

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Dr Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about ...

The Jungle

by Upton Sinclair

IT WAS FOUR O'CLOCK when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive.

Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

"CHRISTMAS won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

White Fang

by Jack London

Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway.

Hard Times

by Charles Dickens

NOW, what I want is Facts.

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

Maurice

by E. M. Forster

Once a term the whole school went for a walk-that is to say the three masters took part as well as all the boys.

The energies of art

by Jacques Barzun

Dracula

by Bram Stoker

3 May. Bistritz.-Left Munich at 8.35 p.m. on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6.46...

Middlemarch

by George Eliot

MISS BROOKE had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

Ivanhoe

by Sir Walter Scott

THE Author of the Waverley Novels had hitherto proceeded in an unabated course of popularity, and might, in his peculiar...

Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo

IN 1815, Monsieur Charles Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D-.

Emma

by Jane Austen

Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the b...

Passing

by Nella Larsen, Matthew Hodgson

It was the last letter in Irene Redfield's little pile of morning mail.

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

A THRONG of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoo...

Persuasion

by Jane Austen

THE following pages are the production of a pen which has already contributed in no small degree to the entertainment of...

Orlando

by Virginia Woolf

HE-for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it-was in the act of...

Ethan Frome

by Edith Wharton

I HAD THE STORY, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different ...